Comments on: Choosing a Solar Installer Can Be Tough http://1bog.org/blog/choosing-a-solar-installer-can-be-tough/ One Block Off the Grid organizes group discounts on solar panels for your home, lowering the cost to buy solar power. Signing up is free! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:20:13 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Dave http://1bog.org/blog/choosing-a-solar-installer-can-be-tough/comment-page-1/#comment-2461 Dave Tue, 11 May 2010 16:55:03 +0000 http://1bog.org/?p=3738#comment-2461 Hi Steve, Nope, the installer's install crew wouldn't know which is a 1BOG deal or which is not, only the sales team... so there is no cutting corners. Also, the discounts we provide come from cost savings we create through group purchasing, not from their margins. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLeugvGlizY Take care, Dave from 1BOG Hi Steve,

Nope, the installer’s install crew wouldn’t know which is a 1BOG deal or which is not, only the sales team… so there is no cutting corners. Also, the discounts we provide come from cost savings we create through group purchasing, not from their margins. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLeugvGlizY

Take care,
Dave from 1BOG

]]> By: Steve http://1bog.org/blog/choosing-a-solar-installer-can-be-tough/comment-page-1/#comment-1440 Steve Tue, 11 May 2010 16:00:19 +0000 http://1bog.org/?p=3738#comment-1440 It will be very interesting who the contractor is that 1BOG has show up at the estimate. I have had a number of installers visit me already, some of them good and some not so good. This will be the second largest purchase next to my home. I want a quality job with a good company. The best companies are not the least expensive. If a company has to drop the price so deep that the quality suffers, what good is this? The RFP process, I'm sure is heavily waited on price. Most all panels have a 20 year warrenty. I feel this price grinding will make the 1BOG customer suffer with the installer having to cut corners to make any profit. We will see, still waiting for a phone call and a personal estimate. It will be very interesting who the contractor is that 1BOG has show up at the estimate. I have had a number of installers visit me already, some of them good and some not so good. This will be the second largest purchase next to my home. I want a quality job with a good company. The best companies are not the least expensive. If a company has to drop the price so deep that the quality suffers, what good is this? The RFP process, I’m sure is heavily waited on price. Most all panels have a 20 year warrenty. I feel this price grinding will make the 1BOG customer suffer with the installer having to cut corners to make any profit. We will see, still waiting for a phone call and a personal estimate.

]]> By: Jon http://1bog.org/blog/choosing-a-solar-installer-can-be-tough/comment-page-1/#comment-1254 Jon Thu, 06 May 2010 04:06:59 +0000 http://1bog.org/?p=3738#comment-1254 What insurance do you carry, since you are vetting, I assume you are taking on the liability of the installation. If the installation has issues, and you recommended the installer, I would include you in any law suit or claim for damages. What insurance do you carry, since you are vetting, I assume you are taking on the liability of the installation. If the installation has issues, and you recommended the installer, I would include you in any law suit or claim for damages.

]]> By: Clayton from 1BOG http://1bog.org/blog/choosing-a-solar-installer-can-be-tough/comment-page-1/#comment-2459 Clayton from 1BOG Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:36:29 +0000 http://1bog.org/?p=3738#comment-2459 Hi Ken, See our page on 'Solar Myths:' http://howsolarworks.1bog.org/solar-myths/ Myth 5. New whiz-bang solar technology will make solar $1 a watt in only a few years. Media loves to hype up new innovative technologies but the truth is we’ve been using the same solar technology since the 60’s, and those systems are still producing energy. We’re only about twice as efficient as we were back then, so solar’s not like the laptop you bought two years ago that’s now obsolete. The point is that solar makes economic sense today, and once installed it continues to work for decades. It produces a commodity at a set production rate, and that commodity is one of the few things that we can all be assured is going to increase in value (unless someone figures out a safe way to split the atom). Hi Ken,

See our page on ‘Solar Myths:’ http://howsolarworks.1bog.org/solar-myths/

Myth 5. New whiz-bang solar technology will make solar $1 a watt in only a few years.

Media loves to hype up new innovative technologies but the truth is we’ve been using the same solar technology since the 60’s, and those systems are still producing energy. We’re only about twice as efficient as we were back then, so solar’s not like the laptop you bought two years ago that’s now obsolete. The point is that solar makes economic sense today, and once installed it continues to work for decades. It produces a commodity at a set production rate, and that commodity is one of the few things that we can all be assured is going to increase in value (unless someone figures out a safe way to split the atom).

]]> By: Ken Oatman http://1bog.org/blog/choosing-a-solar-installer-can-be-tough/comment-page-1/#comment-1249 Ken Oatman Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:57:37 +0000 http://1bog.org/?p=3738#comment-1249 What do you tell customers that want to wait to install solar, until some new technology comes out? Is there, honestly, any new solar technology coming that's worth waiting for? Or is all incremental? What do you tell customers that want to wait to install solar, until some new technology comes out?

Is there, honestly, any new solar technology coming that’s worth waiting for? Or is all incremental?

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